Passenger-car.



.R. T. SBNTER.

PASSENGER GAR.

APPLICATION rum) JULY 15,1911.

Patented Aug. 4, 191% 6 8HEETS-BHEET 1.

R. T. SENTEB PASSENGER CAR.

APPLIUATION IILIID JULY 16,1911.

Patented Aug. 4, 1914.

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PASSENGER CAR.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 15, 1911.

1.1 05,704. Patented Aug. 4, 1914.

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PASSENGER GAR.

APPLICATION 11111111 JULY15,1911.

1,105,704. Patenwm 15118.4, 1914,

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R. T. SENTER.

PASSENGER CAB.

APPLICATION rumn JULY 15,1911.

Patented Aug. 4, 1914 5 SHEETS-SHEET 5.

1216/2 gum RALPH SENTER, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR, IBY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, T0 THE NEAR-SIDE CAR COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

PASSENGER-CAR.

specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 15, 1911.

Patented Aug. 4., 1914.. Serial No. 688,635.

' To all whom it may concern:

citizen ofthe United States, residing atBuf- F falo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Passenger-Cars, of which the following is a full,-clear, concise, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification.

One object to this invention is to construct a passenger car so that the entran e and exit will be at the forward end of the car and I to provide means by which the conductor can control the ingress of passengers and receive the fares from passengers as they pass from the platform into the body of the .car; there being a separate exit passageway,

also in close proximity to the conductors station. By placing both the entrance and the exit at the forward end of the car, the

passengers are more readily accommodated, particularly where the cars stop on the near side of the street as is now required in some cities, since the incoming passengers are not obliged to walk to the rear end of the car to board the same, and the outgoing passengers can all alight substantially at the cross walk. A saving in time results, since it is unnecessary to keep the car waiting for those who have been standing at the cross walk to travel theentire length of the car to enter it. And if the streets are muddyor covered with snow and slush, it is not necessary to wade through it the entire length of the car to reach the entrance. Accidents are avoided since passengers alighting from the front have a direct/view of cars or automobiles approaching from the opposite direction, and

should they desire to pass behind the car they must necessarily await its forward movement and consequently do not pass directly into the path of vehicles movind 1n 'the opposite direction.- Aside from these itual satisfaction of the operating company and the public.

A further object of the invention is to provide an emergency door at the rear of the car, which can be opened or closed preferably from the con'dflctors station at the forward end of the car, or, if necessary, at a point near the rear of the car. This is of value in case of accident or in case of a series of repayment stations on the line as hereina ter described.

The invention also relates to improvements for operating the doors and also for operating the steps in front of said doors.

Other objects will appear from the detailed description and claims to follow, reference being had to the accompanying draw ings illustrating embodiments of my invention and forming part of this application, in which the same reference characters are used throughout the several views to designate like parts, and in which:

Figure 1 is a sectional plan view illustrating the divisions of the front platform; the arrangement of the seats, and the rear emergency dooi'the doors being closed and the steps raised; Fig. 2 is a plan view, showing the front door operating mechanism ati ng mechanism. Fig. 6 is a plan VIEW,

showing the outline of-a' portion of the front platform in dotted lines and illustrating the mechanism for operating the platform doors; the doors being in open position and the steps lowered; Fig. 7 is a sectional view on the line 77, Fig. 6; showing the step lowered; Fig. 8 is a view in elevation; showingthc'two hand levers for operating the platform doors-.-one shaft being mounted withinthe other; the tubular shaft being shown in section. This view also illustrates the means for locking the when hoth doors are llllliliSGil, l 'ig. is a side rear door operating handle. ale and can be used e conductoifs station of the car; Fig. oi the rear portion n. roar pla ttorni is clisplacec 1 section the floor 01" y on a level with the floor ctr. Qhe floor Ferahly below the y of the car and from the platform a are two steps leading 3' door at the rear ct llisfi steps are pret :lding type, and in .r, near the lil inal seats 2% '1.

he rear half of the car seats 26 and near the door inc-re 1.. short longitudinal he c me rear or the car rining to the shape of he arrangement of the rides ample room for the i C, ig out the emergency door a d ditional standing room in case The shortening oi the the emergency exit not only clearance for the passageway, but tor the conductor to stand ite and operating the said .xnn the rear end of the car,

fter explained. ward platform is divided into stae niotmrnan and conductor and for the ingress and egress oli erably by three 1' 29, Jported in any desired or usual Fi s. l and 3. (inc rail motornians .tion; another conductors station, and .ides the ingress passage- ...nn passageway. The insageway, in the present instance, is

the trail passageway and the forward l do 1 r controls the admission of passengers tcar, while the other door 33 of the .atitorm controls the exit of passengers cm the car. /Villain the motormans stat' m is the usual controller her; 34:; hand hralrc 35, air hralce controller 35, and the the step 50 and corresponding means 86 for opening and closing the side doors 32 and 33, as hereinafter described, by which said doors can be opened and closed in unison or separately, as sired. At the motormars station is a swing ing seat 3'? and within the conductors station is also a swinging seat 38 each mounted on a post as shown in Fig. 3, so that the seats operating can be shifted into and out of position, as

the conductor and motorman must stand dur ng the time the car is passing through the thickly populated districts. The seats have tongues 39 which enter notches in the supporting standards, Fig. 3, so that they may be fixedly adjusted in any position;

There is a space between the rails separating the conductors station from the motor.- mans station into which a passenger can step from the ingress passageway, if it is necessary for the conductor to make change, so as not to interfere with the free movement of the other passengers entering the body of the car.

The side doors 32 and 33 at the front plat- "form are operated from the two vertical shafts 40 and. a l, Fig. 8, one mounted within the other, and each having an operating lever and handle designated l3 and 4.4, respectively. Each of these shafts has an arm at the lower end, under the platform, and on the pivot rod of each door is a corresponding arm I to which the arms on the shafts are respectively connected by rods and 46, as shown. On one of the two operating levers, which are mounted on the shafts 4:0 and 41, 8, in this instance on the lever 43, is mounted a movable pin. 47, carried by a lever 4-8 pivoted to one ofthe arms 43, and this lever is actuated by a pin 49 extending through the handle on the said lever so that when the said pin is pushed down as by the thumb of the operator While grasping the handle it will move the pin 49 into an opening in the other arm so as to lock the two arms together. Then on moving said arm, both doors will. be simultaneously opened or closed.

The steps 50 and 51, at the forward end of the car are suitably pivoted as at 52 so as to swing up against the vertical face of the steps, and these steps are operated by levers and 54 mounted on the underside of the car sill and suitable connecting rods, leading therefrom to the steps and door operating rods, respectively. The lever 54, for instance, is connected by the rod 55 with the stop 51 in such manner, as indicated in Fig. 7, as to raise and lower said step when the lever 54; moved one way or the other about its pivol and the other arm of said lever 54 is connected hy the rod 56, as seen in Fi 6, to re ceive motion directly from the corresponding door operating rod 4-6. Likewise, rods 5'? and 58, Fig. 6, connect the lever 53 with door operat 1, magma ing rod 45. The opening or closing of the doors 32 and 33, therefore, by the motorman, either separately or simultaneously correspondingy lowers or raises the steps 50 and 51.

The rear door 23 may be operated either from the front platform or from the rear of the car. This door is a double door and swings on a single pivot rod 59 (Fig. 4) which is connected through: the medium of an arm 60 and rod 61 to an arm 62 on a vertical rock shaft 63. A bell cranltlever 64- on this shaft has the two arms connected bya rod 65 to an arm on the lower end of the forward operating shaft 66 at the conductors station, andthis shaft is provided with a detachable handle, as later described.

, The other arm of the bell crank lever 64 secured to the rear wall of the car.

is connected by a rod 67 to a bell crank lever 68 under the rear of the car, which, in turn, is connected by a vertical rod 69 running through a protecting ,covering or casing 70 to a corresponding arm on an overhead shaft mounted on a bracket fgl e shaft on which the arm is mounted has a squared end 72 (Figs. 4: and 5) to receive a detach-able handle 7 3 so that the conductor can .pperate the door, either from his station at the front of the car, or from a point adjacent the door at the rear of the can. The parts are, preferably, so arranged that he can detach the handle at the forward end ofthe car and with it operate the door from the rear of the car. The outer end of this squared shaft at the rear of the car is provided with a slot in which is pivoted a cross member 714 adapted to be turned endwise on its pivot pin so that the handle can be put on or slipped off the squared end of the shaft, but when in the position shown in Fig. 5 the handle is prevented from inadvertently coming off. The

roar step 7 5 is moved to its operating position when the door is opened and is tilted up out of the way when the door is closed. The step structure consists of two threads mounted on two cast iron brackets near the ends of the treads and is so balanced that the upper tread and parts connected therewith, when the step is tilted, forms a 001m terbalance to hold the step in the proper position, without using extra weights (Fig. 11). The step as a whole is pivoted on a shaft 7 6, which is supported from the frame of'the car by suitable supporting brackets 76.-\ lVhen down, the upper ends of the step brackets engage an angle iron stop 77 attached to the car framing, and when tilted up, as seen in Fig. 11, the lower tread engages the face of the sill, and the step does not then project outwardly beyond thelimits of the side of the car. An arm 78 at one end of the rear step shaft 76 is connected by a rod 7 8 to an arm 79 on the receive the squared end 72 of the shaft.

'vertical shaft '63 to which the bell crank lever 64 is connected so that, when the 'door 23is,opened or closed, the step is moved to the operative or inoperative position.

The operating lever 73 for the rear door, is shown more in detail in Figs. 5 and 9 and comprises a ratchet lever having a handle in ich' is a pin 80, which actuates a bell crank lever 81 suitably connected to a rod sliding within the handle and having on its end a tooth 82 which enters one of the notches in a circular head rotatably mounted in the enlarged end of the lever and having a squared opening therein to Back of the tooth 82,is a coiled spring tending to force the tooth into engagement with the notches in the said head. By pressing on the pin 80, the handle can be adjusted to any position on the shaft.

In order to prevent the opening of the rear door without the conductors consent, the shaft 66 at the front platform is prevented from rotationby a pin 83 projecting therefrom, striking against a pin 84. The shaft 66 cannot be rotated until the pin 84 is removed or raised, so as to clear the projection or pin 83 on the said shafti Assuming thehandled lever 73 to be in the position shown in Fig. 3, when the door is closed, in order to turn the lever so as to open the. door, the pin 84 can be raised, or removed, to allow the pin 83 9n the shaft to clear it. If it is wished to open the door by operating the rear mechanism then the conductor first removes the pin 84; taking the operating lever to the rear mechanism and placing it in position so as to be turned, as it will be understood that when the rear operating mechanism is turned, the shaft 66 also turns. I

A suitable locking device, operating independently of the front-control of this door, will of course be used, for the purpose of preventing the rear door rom being 110 thrown open by passengers falling against it, and the passengers falling out. This lock will work automatically with the shaft on which the door is hung, so that if the conductor should fail to replace the pin 84, 115 no harm can be done.

In Fig. 12, is shown a modification of the arrangement of the front platform rails 1 so that the ingress passage will be separated from the egress passage by a diagonal rail 1 and the conductors station will be dividod from the ingress passage by a curved rail 86, while the motormans station will be separated from the egress passage by a rail 87. This rail can be of any form de- 125 sired. The ingress passageway has a doorway at the side of the car which can be operated by the conductor or by the motorman, as desired, and in any suitable manner, and the egress passageway has a doorend of the car, doors for sand passageways- "menace emergency doorat the rear of the car controlled from either the front'or-rear end of thecar.

7. In a passenger car, the combination with the conductors and motormans sta-l" tions atthe front end of the car, of separate 8. In a passenger car, the combination with the conductors and motormans stations at the forward end of the car, of separateingress and egress passageways at said controlled from the mo'tormans station, and

an emergency door at the rear of the car controlled from tion. 1

9. In a passenger 'car,"the oombinatlon the said condnctors sta- .with the conductors and motormans stations at the forward end of the car, of sepa rate entrance and exit passageways at said forward end, an emergency door at the rear of the car controlled from either end of the car, and means controlled at the forward end of the car for locking said emergencydoor closed.

10. In a passenger car, the combinationv with 'the conductors and motormans stations at the front end of the car and dividing structures to form said stations, of an entranceand ashparate exit at the forward line of the car. I

Tllflfha passenger car, the combination with the 'condnctors and motormans stations at the front end of the car and dividing-structures to form said stations, of an entrance and a separate exit at the forward end of the car onthe same side of the center end of the car on the sameside of the center line of the car, and doors for said exit and said entrance controlled from said end of the car.

12. In a passenger car, the combination with the conductors and-motormans sta-,

tions at the front end of the car and divisional structures to form said stations, of

separate entrance and exit passageways at the forward end of the car opening on the same side of the center line of the car, and doors for said exitand said entrance controlled from the motormans station.

13.v The combination in a passenger car, of

a bodyportion, a platform at one end thereof, one side of the platform being open to allow for the ingress and egress of passen ge'rs, a rail separating the ingress from the egress passageway, and a rail separating the ingress passageway from the condnctors station o'n the'front platform.

14. The combination ,in a passenger car,

of a body portion, a platform-at one end thereof, one'side ofthe platform being open to allow for the ingress and egress of passenand con uctors station on thefront plat form, the last mentioned rails being arranged to form a recess between the stations 1e motorman and the conductor to allow a passenger to stand therein whilereceiving change. v

15. The combination in a passen er car, of a bed portion, a platform at the orward end of t e body portion, rails dividing the platform into three sections, a central sectionfor the ingress of passengers and a side passage for the egress of passengers, both leadingto one side of the platform, and a side section for the motorman and conductor, the last-mentioned section being divided to separate the conductors station from that of the motor-man, doors arranged to close the ingress and egress passageways and means for closin the doors located in close prox imity to the motormans station.

16. The combination in a passenger car,

of a body portion, a platform at the forward end of the body portion, open at one side, two doors closing said side of the platform, a motorrnans station at the forward end of the platform, means at the motormans station fog controlling the said doors, a conductorsstation at the closed side of the platform and at the rear thereof, rails on the platform to separate the conductors and motormans stations from the ingress passagewav and the ingress passageway from the egress passageway, with a doorway at the rear of the car, a door for closing said doorway, and means for operating the said c oor.

17. In a passenger car, a body portion, a platform at the forward end of the body portion open at one side, two doors closing said side of the platform, a motormans station at the forward end of the platform, means at the motormans stationforcontrolling the said doors, a conductors station at the closed side of the platform and near the rear thereof, and rails on the platform to separate the conductors and motorlnans station from the ingress passageway and the ingress passagewayfrom the egress passagewa 1 :3. The combination ina passcn er car, of a body portion. a platform at the orward 'end of the body portion, a doorway at the rear of the car, a door for closing said door a way, means for dividing the platform so as to form ingress and egress passageways therein, and stations for the motorman and conductor, and means at the conductors station for operating the rear door. 19. combination in a passenger car,

of a body portion, a platform at the forward end of the body port-ion, a conductors station at the platform, said car having a doorway in one side and near the rear end thereof, a door for closing said doorway, and means at the conductors station for operating the said door.

20. The combination in a passenger car, of a body portion, a platform at the forward end, open at one side, doors arranged to close that side of the platform, means for operat ing said doors, a doorway at the rear of the car at the same side as the opening at the front platform, a conductors station, rails dividing the platform to form ingress and egress passageways and a conductors station, a door for closing the rear doorway, and means at the conductors station for opening and closing said door.

21. In a passenger car, a body portion, a platform at one end of said body portion, said platform comprising four divisions, two of said divisions constituting ingress and egress passageways, respectively, said passageways extending to the exterior of the car on the same side of the center line of the car, one of said divisions constituting a motormans station and the other of said divisions constituting a conductors station, and a dividing structure separating said ingress and egress passageways;

22. In a passenger car, a body portion, a platform at one end of said body portion, said platform comprising four divisions, two of said divisions constituting ingress and egress passageways, respectively, a divisional structure to separate said passageways, doors to close said passageways, another of said divisions constituting a motormans station, means located at said motormans station to control said doors, the fourth of said divisions constituting a conductors station, an exit near the opposite end of said car, a door to close said exit, and

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means located at said conductor s tion to control. said door,

23. In a passenger car, a body portion, and a platform at one end of said body por tion, said platform comprising t di isions, two of said divisions constitr gress and egress passageways, r aiectiveiy, said passageways extending to t exterior of the car on the same side of the center of the car, a divisional structure to sens said passageways, doors to close t sageways, another of said divisions co. stitutmotorinans station, a eivisional structure to form said station, and means lo ed at said. niotornians station to control st doors 24:. In a passenger car, body portion, a platform at the forward end of d body portion, said platform comprising visions, two of said divisions ingress and egress passageways, res I a divisional structure to separate sageways, another of said divisions constituting a niotormans station the other of said divisions constitutii g conduct-arts station, said n'iotormans station. and said con name" 'l,

Witnesses War. A, Benn, stunner Cl. Berna,

ductors station being spaced apart to form 

